LONDON.- In this exhibition inspired by psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich's last words spoken in an American prison, Spectres of Marx pays tribute to Reichs much discredited theory of orgone, the hypothetical form of energy first proposed and promoted in the 1930s by Reich. Claiming that orgone is a manifestation of the Freudian concept of libido, Reich saw it as a universal bioenergetic force lying behind and causing much, if not all, observable phenomena. This claim led to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration obtaining a federal injunction barring the interstate distribution of orgone-related materials, on the charge that Reich and his associates were making false and misleading claims and led to Reichs two-year imprisonment.

The title of the exhibition itself refers to Jacques Derridas text in which the philosopher alludes to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' statement at the beginning of the Communist Manifesto that a spectre (of communism) is haunting Europe. Sexton is interested in exploring what he sees as Derrida's attempts to launch all unconventional weapons against the ten plagues of capitalism - be they by occult, psychic or spectral means.

The exhibition, which witnesses modernity as a single-state or mono-culture, is conversely amplified by the artists new factory of multicolored Marx heads  some crowned with 'Das Kapital' safe deposits which contain orgonite, Reichs physical medium, believed to attract orgone.

Twisting Warholian references into a 'New Factory' for a 'New International', the artist asks his audience through the beautiful form of a Shamanistic metamorphosis: a mask of Marx made from recycled TV screens: reaching out to the masses, to 'liberate love and labour, declaring fascists as 'sexual cripples, and urges his counterparts to 'fuck freely (as) comrades'.

Spectres of Marx will run from Friday 2nd October  Saturday 31st October with a private view on Thursday 1st October as part of the Whitechapels First Thursdays, where a newly commissioned film by acclaimed band Factory Floor will be screened. Later in the month during Zoo/Frieze week S.C.U.M. will play a live set in the space as part of art-wars project spaces October Revolution nights.